Original Galaga Standup For Mame Cab - Washington DC Area

[Callindril]

Hey,

Last month, I had posted a message about using a 'broken'  Galaga cabinet for a Mame cab, and was talked out of it, and a good thing too, sicne a friend was able to fix it for me by cleaning the board...(Im not an electronics person ).

Ends up my wife decided she liked the idea of being able to play a bunch of games instead of just one, so Im looking to trade a functional original Galaga machine for a Mame cabinet with a decently sized monitor plus some cash. I dont need a PC for it as I already have one all setup...

Pictures can be seen at http://www.rono.org/galaga/

I live in the Washington, DC (Northern VA near Sterling/Leesburg) area, and have no means of travel with the cabinet...

If your interested, please let me know...

CC

[SaiNRuB]

Good for you Callindril, save those classics!

[paigeoliver]

A Galaga is more like an even trade for a Mame cabinet. Just wanted to let you know.

[Callindril]

Thanks for the heads up...

[notaburger]

of course it depends on the quality of each too
i've seen many mame machines on ebay that i wouldn't trade a galaga for without some compensation

[paigeoliver]

If it aint worth an even trade on a fair condition Galaga then it isn't worth having!!

I have seen some nightmare mame cabinets I wouldn't buy for $10 because I would be afraid someone might see them in my truck on the way home and think I built them that way.

Actually, I have seen so many bad ones that I have always wanted to start a Mame Hall of Shame website. Which would be really funny to everyone but the people whose cabs I featured.

[maraxle]

Actually, I have seen so many bad ones that I have always wanted to start a Mame Hall of Shame website. Which would be really funny to everyone but the people whose cabs I featured.

I seem to remember somebody doing that a while back...

[SirPeale]

So what kind of Mame machine are you looking for?  Horizontal?  Verical?  Classics?  Fighters?

[Callindril]

Looking for a stand-upright that can handle 2 players doing most of the old classics, doesnt need to be an  Arcade monitor, a PC monitor or TV would be fine...

Trick is most of the games the wife wants to play are Horizontal (Like Galaga, DK, Space Invaders) with only a few Vertical  (Like Joust).

[SirPeale]

You got them backwards.  Galaga, Pac-Man are vertical, and Joust is horizontal.

Put me together a game list.  Some may be feasible, some may not, and I'll see what I can do.

[Callindril]

Here is a list of the ones in our current Favorites Folder:

amidaru
asteroi1
berzerk
brubber
btime
chplftbl
demoderb
digdug
dkong3
dkongo
elevator
excitebk
frenzy
frogger
frontlin
galaga
hattrick
invaders
joustr
jungleh
kchampvs
kungfum
ladybug
llander
locomotn
maniach
mario
matmania
mbrush
mrdot
mspacman
nibbler
pacman
pengob
popeyebl
qix
rallyx
rampage2
scramble
suprmrio
tapper
tetrisbl
timeplt
venture4
vsyard
xevious
zaxxon

[Stingray]

Actually, I have seen so many bad ones that I have always wanted to start a Mame Hall of Shame website. Which would be really funny to everyone but the people whose cabs I featured.

I seem to remember somebody doing that a while back...

As do I. Pretty mean spirited I thought.

-S

[paigeoliver]

Generally the better thing to do is just post a picture of the offending cabinet over at the klov.com boards, where we can laugh at it privately!

I also post some of the good ones there too. 

[DarkKobold]

Ok, a MAME cab is worth no where near what a Galaga is! A Galaga is around a $1000 game. You can put your own MAME cab together for under $500.

The reason why MAME cabs went so high is because they were not well known. Now everyone and their brother are throwing MAME cabinets on EBAY, prices are dropping. They sell OK at auctions, because a lot of know-nothings show up and are amazed.  I saw one "sell" for 600 at an auction. Only one person bid. The person who brought it.

Not to forget, a Galaga holds a collectible value, i.e. an intrinsic value. A MAME cab is nothing more, nothing less. No one will collect MAME cabinets.

This excludes professionally built cabs. I'm mainly commenting on quick conversion cabs.

[SirPeale]

Ok, a MAME cab is worth no where near what a Galaga is! A Galaga is around a $1000 game.

Not anymore, it's not.  During the dot-com boom, people were going crazy, buying them left and right to relive their childhood.  A lot of people who had them were like "Hey!  I've got one gathering dust in my garage/basement, I can sell it for $2,000!"

Since there are so many of them out there, now that we have the 'dot-bomb' the prices have dropped sharply.  What was once a $2,000 item has now become a $750 item - and that's for a mint condition machine!

[danny_galaga]

that's funny! first everyone pleads with him not to convert it. then when he doesn't and instead restores it everyone says it's not really worth all that much...

[SirPeale]

that's funny! first everyone pleads with him not to convert it. then when he doesn't and instead restores it everyone says it's not really worth all that much...

Oh, it's still a worthwhile game, to be sure.  But monitarily it's not worth what DarkKobold was saying.

[DarkKobold]

750, 1000, in that area. Regardless, a MAME cab has no "lasting" value, I.E. not a collectible.

I'd make thousands of MAME cabs if I could trade them straight up for classics.

mmmmm *drools* Warlords cocktail for a MAME machine.

In a heartbeat.

[danny_galaga]

750, 1000, in that area. Regardless, a MAME cab has no "lasting" value, I.E. not a collectible.

I'd make thousands of MAME cabs if I could trade them straight up for classics.

mmmmm *drools* Warlords cocktail for a MAME machine.

In a heartbeat.

for sure 

[Callindril]

I'd make thousands of MAME cabs if I could trade them straight up for classics.

I dont have thousands....I only have one....

[PacManFan]

Here's my Dig Dug cab. I might be interested in a trade.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6133976866&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

-PMF

[Buddabing]

750, 1000, in that area. Regardless, a MAME cab has no "lasting" value, I.E. not a collectible.

I'd make thousands of MAME cabs if I could trade them straight up for classics.

mmmmm *drools* Warlords cocktail for a MAME machine.

In a heartbeat.

It all depends on the condition and rarity of the cabinets in question. I have an all-original Galaga in great condition with a brand-new monitor. Would I trade it straight up for a fully decked-out 1-UP cab? You bet. Would I trade it for Joe MAME Cabinet? No way. Would I trade my MAME cab for a working Galaga that wasn't in good condition? No. Would I trade it for a mint condition Tron? Gladly.

[Callindril]

Here's my Dig Dug cab. I might be interested in a trade.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6133976866&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

-PMF

Didnt this just sell on Ebay?  How ya gonna trade it if ya just sold it?

Are the joysticks 4-way or 8-way ?

[XtraSmiley]

I sent you an email about this, if you didn't get it, plese email me at hearingprotection@yahoo.com

[Callindril]

Got your Email and replied....thanks anyway, but Im looking for a Mame cab or something I can easily convert into a Mame cab...a submarine game with a periscope doesnt quite qualify...

[paigeoliver]

The home arcade hit its peak several years ago. And the mame cabinets are what is killing it. It used to be that plenty of well-off people would buy 5 and six games for their basement and they would want the BIG NAME stuff. Galaga, Ms. Pac-Man, Asteroids, Star Wars.

It used to be that the hardcore game collectors AND the casual players BOTH were heavily after the top 25 titles.

Those same buyers have ditched their machines for Mame cabinets and the value of the top 25 has been falling and it will continue to fall, they were overpriced anyway.

Meanwhile Jamma games are on the rise pricewise, as a new generation of buyers looks for THEIR favorite games, which were from a decade later.

Enthusiasts, real enthusiasts will still have a room or house full of machines, but the casual owners (a category that is actually growing) are moving more and more towards having a single Mame cabinet (or 9 in 1), and maybe a driving game.

This is good news for us enthusiasts, but bad news for those who THINK they are sitting on a fortune with their classics.

Some stuff is going to stay sky high though, and that is niche stuff, the stuff that the general public doesn't even care about, but that the collectors go crazy for. Vectorbeam games, laserdisc games, Warlords, Crazy Climber, stuff like that.

[RayB]

Damn... there goes my retirement fund!
 

[PacManFan]

Sorry, My Dig Dug cab went from 0 to 661$ in the last 2 minutes of the auction. I didn't think anyone was going to buy it.

-PMF

[brained]

That's ebay, people watch till the last minute. ...